[TriLUG] OT: Google advertising for spammers?

[Joel James Adamson]

Maxwell Spangler <maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 14:37 -0400, Scott Lambdin wrote:
>> Someone please tell me I'm crazy and this below is not an ad for spammers
>> Gmail is showing me.  Please.  Because is smells like spam.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Free Trial - Mass Email - www.iContact.com <http://www.icontact.com/> -
>> 99.9% Highest Inbox Deliverability. Test Drive our Mass Emailer Free!
>
> Our marketing list was opt-in only and we always tried to communicate
> something of value to our opt-in receivers.  Music, beer specials,
> coupons, etc.  We never sent something that said "We have a new burger
> <picture here> and if you come buy we'll sell it to you at full
> price."

Did you ever send out a message that says

"I'm the legal representative of a prominent Nigerian businessman who
entrusted me with a burger and fries..."

?????

Joel
-- 
Joel J. Adamson
Servedio Lab
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FSF Member #8164
http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj
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